jonknee

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by jonknee 7y ago
Would you be enthusiastic to partner up with Jeff Bezos on something like home delivery? He's going to squeeze you until you beg for mercy and that's the point he'll roll out a competing service and start to take your best cu
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It has? EUR/USD is +.75%, AUD/US is -.55%, USD/JPY is +.5%.
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They make money selling pizza (super high margin), not at delivery.
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Apple has run out of people to sell iPhones to, Amazon is just getting started ("day one" as Bezos likes to say). P/E is about growth potential and the market is saying Amazon has lots more of it than Apple.
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by jonknee 7y ago
There are tons of components in Apple's devices and only a few Apple logos. If you get an order for 70 million higher end tiny lenses you can narrow down the list of potential customers pretty quickly, no logos needed.
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When you're ordering in Apple like volumes it has to be very difficult to hide.
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Birthrates are also declining outside of cities at similar rates [1]. It may be a little more apparent in expensive cities because childless people tend to not like suburbs and choose density if they can afford it, but I don't think ci
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by jonknee 7y ago
CNBC had a similar piece last week with more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYh1KTfydvU
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I wonder if they sold more 1.5TB MBAs or gold watches?
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They'll be in for a rude awakening when they find out other fulfillment center jobs are just as hard and pay equal or less.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yea so that way they'll have no jobs at all!
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Interesting, I have never seen that and even tried in an Incognito tab and with Safari which I don't use regularly.
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by jonknee 7y ago
It could also just not be true? No one but Netflix knows what shows their subscribers like and they're currently spending money like a drunken sailor so I'm hard pressed to believe any argument about paying less for their work. Th
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by jonknee 7y ago
Those little tricks to make things easier is why it's popular and why they're currently valued at $25,000,000,000 (though that should go down quite a bit tomorrow, still just an insane number for a company with $8m in annual prof
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by jonknee 7y ago
Fascinating that people like paying less for things.
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Well they actually do this in Seattle and it seems to work out. A fixed route is also not a bad thing (see bus rapid transit) and can encourage private development.
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But in the real world he is definitely not the wealthiest person in the world.
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Steve let some awful designs out. Remember the hockey puck mouse? He even released his own awful expensive failure of a speaker.
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by jonknee 7y ago
But in the real world if a flight is $1 cheaper people will choose it regardless of the equipment. Airlines have vastly different safety records and it doesn't seem to change bookings (Allegiant is thriving despite ignoring maintenance
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> But there are also many examples of aircraft with terrible early safety records that never recovered from their bad start. From Boeing? They have a history of sorting their shit out. Maybe this time is different, but I doubt it.
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Well they also have lots of other mirrorless digital cameras, the newsworthy part here is that this one is a medium format camera (of which there aren't too many with or without mirrors, it's a very niche segment).
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The kind that is maintained for 800 years? It's not like they built it exactly as it remained.
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"all plants of the same stock of bamboo" makes it sound like this would indeed be from the same original plant.
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> Even if a utility wants to retire an unprofitable coal unit, they might not be allowed to do so (by the state) if they're still paying it off. Let's also say they want to retire their entire fleet and go to renewables as you
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by jonknee 7y ago
Conglomerates aren't new and aren't by themselves something to consider antitrust action over. Samsung does everything from highway construction to chip fabrication to making appliances.
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They already have this, you can sign up today to deliver packages for Amazon. https://flex.amazon.com
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> I doubt Amazon would want to deal with all of those employees. Amazon is the second largest private employer in the US, they seem to be fine with paychecks. I was just pointing out that buying Uber so you can deliver stuff is a phenome
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FedEx is still cheaper in terms of market cap than Uber, if Amazon was going to make any major acquisition to deliver parcels it surely would not be Uber.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yes, if a dominant player disappears it will result in chaos. This is not unique to agriculture, imagine Boeing disappearing. Or Amazon (see ya later AWS!). The thing is big companies don't really disappear. They might go bankrupt, but
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They could also stop spending so much?

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